Liferanti

Two miniatures: The Big Crack and The Lady from Astrakhan

Producer Gledališče Glej
Coproducers SNG Nova Gorica, TNK (Teater na konfini), VŠU UNG (Visoka šola za umetnost Univerze v Novi Gorici)
First opening 6. 3. 2011 Gledališče Glej
Second opening 17. 4. 2011 SNG Nova Gorica
Running time 1 hour 45 minutes. One interval.

First staging

Director Miha Nemec
Dramaturge Nejc Valenti
Costume designers Anamarija Cej, Miha Nemec
Set designers Anamarija Cej, Niki Bonetti
Lighting designer Samo Oblokar
Make-up designer Tina Prpar, Anka Strosar
Composer Branko Rožman
Song by Miha Nemec

Cast
Man of Letters Peter Harl
Man Arna Hadžialjevič Arna Hadžialjević
Man Theatre Manager, Man Admirer Luka Cimprič
Man Actress Maja Nemec

​Life®anti is a theatre project. A series of theatrical events. Life®anti is a text created on the basis of polemical newspaper articles published by the Slovenski narod (Slovenian Nation) newspaper during the distant year of 1900. Life®anti is a text based on the viewpoints of real persons: the Man of Letters (Etbin Kristan) and the Man Theatre Manager (Fran Milčinski). Life®anti is a struggle, a clash of titans, a fossil of Slovenian cultural history uncovered to shed light on the present. A relict. Life®anti is a secession, a libel and news.  Life®anti is an advertisement. Life®anti is the Wild West of our cultural history and present day. It takes place at the time of the "division of spirits,” of sharp ideological controversies among political parties which offered and still offer clearer but also darker insights into the cultural and general future. Life®anti is an OFF project. Life®anti is The Big Crack and A Lady from Astrakhan. Life®anti is a play with singing. Life®anti is the debut text and a directorial debut, an avant-garde, a tradition. Life®anti means to be visible and to be heard. Life®anti is a history that refuses to be forgotten.